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12 stories of things people tried to hide in a divorce (12 Photos)

Not everything is sunshine and rainbows when you’re getting divorced, and some angry spouses make things even more complicated by keeping things from their ex. Here are some secrets people thought they were going to get away with.

“The husband in a very high stakes divorce managed to hide two apartment complexes, an ocean-front penthouse in a very expensive city, and an offshore oil rig that were held in two offshore companies that the wife did not know about. It only came out very recently, about two decades later when husband died and left some of that property to their two sons (who were able to see the property histories).”- andyjams

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“In my dad’s last divorce, it came out that his wife had been having an affair. Throughout her last THREE marriages. It was with her first boyfriend. Who was also her step-brother.Neither of them wanted to settle, and it ended up coming out in a hearing or trial in front of the court.”- AtTheEolian

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“The husband was a physician and the wife was a hair stylist. The husband lied about being having a long term disease to the wife and her family. He used this lie to leave his job and stayed home for years while the wife took on multiple jobs and tried to support him on her income alone.They found out he was lying and she filed for divorce. He was ordered by the judge to immediately seek employment as a doctor and pay the wife alimony based on his theoretical salary.”- financial-jaguar

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“Client is an elderly gentleman, some type of retired professional. His son is a pastor. Everything about his situation seemed very normal in terms of income, property, etc. However, it turns out he had a pretty serious porn hobby and he was concerned his wife might find out and use it against him in the divorce. However, as I mentioned above, I assured him that was pretty run-of-the-mill these days and unlikely to affect anything. He then asks if I feel the same knowing the porn is not “mainstream.” I asked what he means and he looks very nervous. I wanted to make sure he wasn’t referencing CP, so I pushed him on it.

The guy was into goats.”- TheLadyInReddit

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“In Australia a divorcing husband hid 10+ million by making an over payment to the tax office, auditors thought it was a tax payment but 6 months later it was refunded with base interest rate. Since then auditors have caught on to this.”- Syidd

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Friend from high school married a guy who did sales for a living. When they first got together he was only out of town for a few days every month, but it got worse and worse over time. After one stint where she didn’t see him for nearly two months (and only heard from him a handful of times) while he was working overseas she threatened divorce.

The divorce didn’t end up happening; He quit his job on the spot, they went to counselling, things got happier.
Years later her mother spots her son-in-law out with another woman and this time the divorce happens.
Lots of dirt came out; He’d been banging a teenager that worked at the local Dairy Queen on his lunch breaks, their joint investments were magically around a hundred grand light, and somehow he’d managed to make his boat and BMW disappear.

But the biggest bit of dirt was about the trip that had almost ended their marriage the first time. He wasn’t overseas, he was a few hundred miles away, in Indiana.

In jail.”- technos

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“A married couple got their gas utility account turned on at their house back in 1972 but the gas company never finished the paperwork properly and they were never billed. They got free gas service forever because their account was properly ‘On’ but the billing was never set up. Later they divorce and the husband gets the house with the free gas service. The gas company finally caught the problem sometime around 2014. The company could legally back-bill the customer for only a limited time amounting to a few years of use but the guy told the company to send the bill to his ex-wife.

There was a clause in the divorce settlement that said that if the gas company ever was notified or discovered the free gas deal, the ex-wife would have to pay any past bill payments. The arrangement was made so that the wife could never alert the company to their error without having to pay herself. What was amazing was that two lawyers and a judge signed off on this while fulling knowing that the guy was getting away with it.”- inkseep1

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“My friend’s dad was a divorce lawyer.He told us a story about a couple who fought over beanie babies and hid the “rare” ones from each other.”- .I_like_14waffles

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“Not a lawyer, but a bartender. And this ends in divorce. Married couple, let’s say their names are Joe and Susan, are regulars at my bar. Friday, Saturday and Sunday they come in with each other, they are very touchy feely and often are making out with each other while they drink some beers.

Monday and Tuesday Susan comes in with an always changing cast of men, and is very touchy feely on them, making out, et cetera. Wednesday and Thursday Joe comes in with an ever changing cast of ladies, and is very touchy feely on them, making out, et cetera.
I figure that they must be in an open relationship in their marriage, I don’t really care, and then proceed to let the next 7 years behind the bar wash over me.

Then, Susan comes in and tells me that she is divorcing Joe, because he is a piece of shit, who cheated on her! I act surprised, and console her, and in doing such she explains that she is very virtuous and has never cheated on Joe, or anyone else.

A while later I see Joe at another bar, and he explains to me that Susan is divorcing him, but he is going to win the divorce (Is there a win in divorce, I dunno) because he had a private detective follow her, and she is a cheating bitch! I act surprised, console Joe, and in doing such he explains that he is a virtuous person, and has never cheated on Susan, or anyone else.”- a_monomaniac

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“Not a lawyer, but my husband’s uncle (they’re close to the same age) was going through a divorce. His wife had just packed up her stuff and their kids and moved out one day while he was at work. Come to find out, a few weeks before she left, she’d won a $5000 a week for life lottery ticket. And thought she could divorce him without splitting her winnings. That didn’t work out very well for her.”- jader88

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“My aunt was a divorce attorney for decades before becoming a judge. The biggest whammo was a guy who was stealing his wife’s undergarments and wearing them. She thought he was just having an affair.”- SpottedPaws

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